Keyboard quarterbacking
Visiting City Hall online, I saw the home page is currently this image of a Trojan looming over the Rose Bowl. Someone is having fun.
The only thing that's going to bring Trojan football to the Rose Bowl next year is if the USC paints itself into a corner with this all-or-nothing campaign to win concessions from the Coliseum. And despite efforts by the Governor and Mayor (who always get their way, right? <.<), it sounds like they could end up with nothing, aka our beloved Rose Bowl.
Coliseum commissioners receive threats
The bitter standoff between USC and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum intensified Thursday as members of the stadium's governing board reported getting death threats from angry fans while legislators worked behind the scenes to revive negotiations.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are looking for ways to help broker a deal that would keep USC from moving its home games to Pasadena's Rose Bowl.
If anything, relations between the university and stadium officials appear to be growing more acrid.
But then again, someone suggests L.A. Times editors are frustrated USC alums who've had enough with the Coliseum Commission.
The LAT connection may not be too far fetched. USC fans are hot tempered and powerful. However, what would a team named "Trojan" do without their Coliseum? It's not fitting for them to play anywhere else but Rome!
Technically, the only thing that will bring the Trojans to the Rose Bowl next year (as in Jan 1, 2008) is a win over UCLA Saturday.
USC has been messing with the Coliseum folk since the 1982 Olympics and the Raiders move to LA the first time . . . demanding and getting big big big concessions on what was to be done to 'SCs little backyard stadium. The 28th Street brothers and sisters, at the very least, will assure that 'SC students can party hardy and WALK to the game, if only to save lawyers fees for DUI convictions on Linda Vista . . . The Trojan Bowl remains a grand annual tradition; the Coliseum likewise. If I was a commissioner it would not be the death threats of the little people that worried me, but the political death thhreats from the Mega-Power fans !